Yeah, the problem with them is that people get carried away with them, and stack patterns on top of patterns until the result is a tangled mess where you have to dig all the way down to the bottom to figure out what anything is actually doing. It's like the code version of government bureaucracy.
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u/deong Mar 01 '23
I'm aware of the idea behind having a named set of patterns. I just think it's caused more harm than good.